COSM News - Issue 35

Dr. Mark dela Cerna was invited to give a talk to the Department of Structural Biology at the Korea Basic Science Institute. His talk focused on his NIH-funded work on the development of migrastatics targeting pro-metastatic phosphatase, PRL3. This talk was part of his visit funded by the Korea Basic Science Institute.

The visit was fully funded by the Korea Basic Science Institute. The 1.2 GHz at KBSI is currently one of three such spectrometers in the world and the highest operating magnetic field for NMR. KBSI also houses several other high-field NMR spectrometers that support research in various areas of structural biology.

Dr. Mark dela Cerna, alongside collaborator Dr. Elias Fernandez of the University of Tennessee stand by the 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer at the Korea Basic Science Institute in Ochang, South Korea. With them is Dr. Donghan Lee, Scientific Director of the NMR facility at KBSI. Drs. dela Cerna, Fernandez, and Lee are collaborating on understanding protein allostery in multi-domain proteins.